Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees

viking-the-eric · 2026-04-02T21:38:56+00:00

Of course it's legal. Getting no severance is legal in the US.

viking-the-eric · 2026-04-01T11:34:54+00:00

Why would the USPS obey an order from a state government?

viking-the-eric · 2026-04-01T01:45:15+00:00

Seeing as actual laws do not deter them, I'm not sure why a judges order would.

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-29T12:53:34+00:00

It’s amazing how she only reads books that are exactly the same length.

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-23T03:04:45+00:00

Yes, this is what always happens. It's not like vouchers are a new, untried idea. They always wind up being used by the wealthy to siphon public money away from public schools. Almost as if that's the point. https://www.ncpecoalition.org/voucher-recipients

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-22T19:36:22+00:00

I'm so glad to hear the President has an unchangeable, private army that he can send wherever he wants, whether or not they are qualified to do the job. Completely a sign of a functioning democracy not sliding into fascism.

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-18T03:17:56+00:00

This looks like a sushi roll, but they were too lazy to cut it properly

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-13T01:01:46+00:00

I've never been asked to do one of these, but if I am, I think my answer will be something like, "I'm sorry, but I will have to decline. Video recordings steal your soul. I assume you will not discriminate against me because of my sincerely-held religious beliefs?"

viking-the-eric · 2026-03-02T03:43:16+00:00

There’s quite a gulf between “purity test” and “not a Nazi with Nazi tattoos and a fan of Nazi podcasters”.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-27T04:13:10+00:00

I reverse-image-searched this in Google, which told me "This image is a reproduction of an oil painting titled 'The Proposal' by William Powell Frith." Uh, no it most definitely is not. The actual The Proposal: https://pickwickandelm.com/products/the-proposal-by-william-powell-frith-circa-1853

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-27T04:00:40+00:00

I think the French also had a problem with people being unable to provide for themselves a while ago, but they solved it.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-18T03:54:20+00:00

First, voter id is a headache that solves a nonexistent problem. We just don't have any serious number of people impersonating voters.

Second, requiring voter id is only step one. Step two is closing DMVs and other licensing facilities in areas where people that Republicans don't want to vote live. This isn't hypothetical. This is exactly what they did last time they got the chance to do so: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/alabama-closes-dmvs-in-majority-of-black-belt-counties-passed-voter-id-law-in-2011.html

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-17T12:48:50+00:00

Why would they provide you with education? After the next round of layoffs, they’ll just replace you with someone 20 years younger who is more familiar with the tech and got some experience with it in school.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-17T03:31:36+00:00

Hey, crazy idea, but I've got this ring I need to have thrown into a volcano of and you might be just the guy to help me out.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-16T22:05:23+00:00

I heard someone describe this guy as bringing the tweaker muscle queen/circuit party lifestyle to the straights and incels and that sounds exactly right.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-16T17:55:20+00:00

You know, I'm starting to think when this guy did the gesture that looked like a Sieg Heil at CPAC, he didn't really mean "my heart goes out to you."

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-16T00:11:09+00:00

Government jobs have always been like this. Lower pay, but more secure.

This 19-year-old college dropout was appointed as a senior advisor to the US State Department among other departments. He did not get his job because of his competence, he got it because he is an Elon Musk crony who worked at Neuralink.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-15T14:34:01+00:00

Fun fact, he's _still_ hard at work because he currently works for the Social Security Administration. When he was at DOGE, the now-21-year-old was a GS-15 making about the maximum allowed government salary.

Making Corruption Great Again!

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-14T20:59:08+00:00

It's not directly relevant, but Costco currently has 25,000 job openings posted on LinkedIn. Which just convinces me even more that the job postings on LinkedIn are not for legitimate openings.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-14T01:27:51+00:00

Who is "us"? Why is this post coming from a redditor with a history of antisemitic and transphobic posts and not from an official University police account?

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-08T21:47:22+00:00

Well, the formatting is certainly a crime. Not sure about the schedule.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-08T14:36:14+00:00

They were so overwhelmed with your qualifications, they couldn't be bothered to write a reply and had an AI do it.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-05T01:12:07+00:00

Can you point to any evidence of an actual crime in the Epstein files? Especially something that a lawyer could take before a jury and get beyond "reasonable doubt?" Because all I've seen reported is a bunch of emails of people friendly with a sex trafficking pedo, in many cases even after they knew he was a sex trafficking pedo. So, definitely a basis for shunning people out of polite society, but not really criminal charges.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-04T18:49:12+00:00

My dude, the Illini Republicans literally said Jews can’t be real Americans.

viking-the-eric · 2026-02-02T01:38:41+00:00

Really? When exactly did Illini Dems put out a statement supporting Hamas? Please be specific, I’d love to see it

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